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Two South Florida doctors who were convicted of money laundering conspiracy in connection with illegal pill mills do not have to report to federal prison this month as scheduled, a judge has ruled. Dr. Cynthia Cadet, 43, of Parkland, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison and Dr. Joseph Castronuovo, 75, of Key Biscayne, was sentenced to 18 months. Both were to report to prison this month but have filed appeals with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The doctors worked for pill mills in Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton , Lake Worth and West Palm Beach that were operated by Wellington twins Christopher and Jeff George, both of whom are serving lengthy prison terms.

It's been more than two years since Randy W. Tundidor was convicted of the murder of his landlord, Nova Southeastern University professor Joseph Morrissey. It's been 20 months since the jury recommended 12-0 that he be executed for that grisly crime. But Tundidor, 47, still has not been sentenced. That should change this summer. Lawyers on both sides of the case acknowledge that a two-year gap between conviction and sentencing is rare in any case, even one involving the death penalty.

Before he was handed a badge and a gun as a police officer for Florida Atlantic University, Jimmy Dac Ho was no stranger to trouble in South Florida. Fired from the Broward Sheriff's Office in 2004 after a violent fight with his wife, Ho spent two years trying to get another job as a police officer. He was rejected by at least seven departments because of his history at the Sheriff's Office before he landed at FAU in 2006. Once there, he racked up complaints of excessive force, intimidation and sexual harassment.

Steven M. Schumer says he's still waiting to see genuine remorse from James Franklin "Jamie" Clark, Jr., the man convicted in 2011 of driving drunk and killing Schumer's 85-year-old mother on a Boca Raton road more than 7-1/2 years ago. "It's because neither he nor his family still believe — no matter how many times it's been reinforced by this court — he did anything wrong," Schumer, of northern New Jersey, told Palm Beach County ...

James Herard deserves to die, a Broward jury determined Wednesday. Not for the murder of Kiem Huynh, the first customer Herard encountered when he and fellow gang members robbed a Dunkin' Donuts on State Road 7 near Commercial Boulevard in Tamarac on Thanksgiving Day 2008. The jury of six men and six women recommended a sentence of life in prison for that crime. But the same jury voted 8-4 to execute Herard for the Nov. 14, 2008 murder of Eric Jean-Pierre, 39, who was gunned down in the 2100 block of Northwest 55th Avenue in Lauderhill on his way home from work.

Christopher Philo, of Delray Beach , won't get his wish to spend a couple of days with his dying, 94-year-old grandfather. That's because Philo, 43, lost out on that opportunity because of his criminal behavior, Circuit Judge Sandra McSorley said Wednesday. The Delray Beach man pleaded guilty May 15 to two aggravated stalking charges and was sentenced to 18 months in state prison, to be followed by two years of probation and enrollment in a batterer's intervention program.

James Herard came from a broken home. He was sexually abused by a family friend, and his mother inflicted forms of corporal punishment that some would consider abusive, a Broward jury was told Tuesday. And when Herard shot to kill during a string of violent robberies in 2008, it excited him. "I got a deranged mind," Herard said during an interview with detectives in late 2008. "It's like sex to me. I enjoyed it. " The same jury that convicted Herard last month of the murders of Kiem Huynh and Eric Jean-Pierre returned to the Broward courthouse to hear prosecutors tell why the defendant, 24, should be put to death, and to hear defense witnesses explain why his life should be spared.

Fred Guirand's head was whacked by a baseball bat a few months before he shot his 18-year-old friend to death nearly a decade ago near Lake Worth. That traumatic brain injury persuaded the sentencing judge in 2007 to give the Sunrise man a big break: five years in state prison plus five years probation, instead of being locked up for as much as 30 years. Now 30, Guirand on Friday learned the same head trauma excuse wouldn't save him from a lengthy prison sentence after he violated probation by committing new crimes in Broward County last year.

He was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident that killed a woman, sentenced to house arrest, labeled a felon and barred from driving for the rest of his life. For more than three years, Joseph McGowan maintained that he believed that it was road debris - not a human being - that struck his vehicle as he drove through the darkness on Interstate 595. On Wednesday, an appeals court agreed and threw out the Plantation man's conviction, ruling there was no evidence that McGowan knew, or even should have known, that he struck a pedestrian on the highway.